"Strathern" Mascot Road, Fords Bridge NSW 2840

Situation & Services:
110km Northwest of Bourke, 42km from Fords Bridge.
Rural Power, Telephone, UHF Tower & Aerial, Mail twice weekly from Bourke.

Area:
8,727 Hectares (21,565 Acres)

Fixed Charges:
Bourke Shire Council Rates: $2190.05 per annum (Approx.)
Western Lands Rental: $795.00 per annum (Approx.)
Local Lands Services Rates: $749.00 per annum (Approx.)
Border Fence Rates: $495.00 per annum (Approx.)

Improvements:
The homestead is a 5-bedroom clad transportable home. The main bedroom includes an ensuite & walk-in robe, with all other bedrooms with built-in robes. The rest of the home includes an office, carpet throughout, gauzed verandah, wood fire, gas stove & electric hot water service. A ducted evaporative air conditioner cools the home and a reverse cycle unit is located in the 5th bedroom.

Outside the homestead there is a 6x4ft cool room, 5000G Manacon Tank meat house. The house yard is secured by a chain wire fence and has a large secure dog run.

18x10m Steel frame machinery shed and workshop with steel and timber benches, shelving & storage room. 60% with a concrete flood. Power and 5000G poly tank connected. Adjacent to the shed is a 20ft shipping container & steel racks.

4 Stand, steel framed woolshed is used for loading goats. Large set of sheep/goat yards lead into the woolshed.

Two hinged joint trap yards are located on "Strathern", one with goat drafting facilities.

Country:
Flat to gently undulating soft sandy loam & red soils with a gypsum base. Some small areas of rocky outcrops.

Moderate to thick timber and shrubs with good areas of semiopen and scattered Mulga, good areas of Box Flats, swamps & watercourses. Small areas of open flats.

Timber comprises of Mulga, Box Belah, Ironwood with some Rosewood, Beefwood, Bloodwood & Lemonwood.

Vegetation comprises of Wiregrass, Woolly butt, Silvergrass, Speargrass plus Spinach, seasonal herbages and Trefoil Clover in the watercourse country.

Fencing:
The entire boundary is all 8/90/30 steel hinged joint. There is a 800 acre holding paddock adjacent to the house and yards.

Water:
Artesian House Bore with electric pump that supplies water to the sheep/goat yards at the woolshed, two nearby troughs and the two trapped goat enclosures by poly pipe. There are five ground tanks and waterholes at the gypsum mine.

Carbon:
There is an Avoided Deforestation Carbon Project attached to "Strathern". Full details provided to qualified purchasers after signing an NDA.

Remarks:
"Strathern" is suited to run a goat and dorper operation rated at 1,818 D.S.E and the current has harvested between 750 and 1400 goats per annum. Adjoining "Old Ellavale" is being offered independently allowing a buyer to put together a total of 39,367 acres if they wish.